Greek stocks ease on Thursday
Greek stocks ease on Thursday
9/10/2003 17:03
Greek stocks ended Thursday's session slightly lower after moving in tight ranges throughout the session reflecting lack of fresh incentives and directions in the Athens Stock Exchange.
The general index ended 0.11 percent down at 2,120.82 points, with turnover a strong 613.7 million euros, of which 490 million were a block trade from the transfer of National Bank's shares to institutional investors as part of a bank's plan to sell 10 percent of its equity capital.
The IT Solution (2.41 percent), IT (1.82 percent) and Holding (1.0 percent) sectors scored the biggest percentage gains of the day, while the Industrial, Publication and Bank sectors suffered the heaviest percentage losses (0.48 percent, 0.42 percent and 0.32 percent, respectively).
The FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavy traded stocks ended 0.32 percent lower, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index rose 0.54 percent and the FTSE/ASE SmallCap 80 index ended 0.32 percent higher.
Broadly, decliners led advancers by 151 to 141 with another 71 issues unchanged.


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